Hey Chaotic, this is an excellent voltage and temps!
There is one nuance. We both are using the similar 890FX-based Crosshair IV boards, right?
In my case, if the bus is less than 300 MHz when overclocked, the invisible throttling happens, I think that because of the 3027 beta BIOS.

Frequency is falling down to 2,8 GHz on from two to six cores, voltage is also reduced.
All energy efficient settings in BIOS are off, Turbocore=disabled.

Then raised bus speed to 290 MHz and throttling is out.

So try to check the frequency of the cores in the CPU-Z under full load. I would be glad if your motherboard hasn't that damn throttling.

OK. I'm really not looking for a cookie here, or anything, since I sould be crunching more than I am right now. Just letting everyone know that I'm gonna start bringing back a couple of crunchers, but probably just a few days a week. This includes a i7 920, 1090T and FX-6100.

OK. I'm really not looking for a cookie here, or anything, since I sould be crunching more than I am right now. Just letting everyone know that I'm gonna start bring back a couple of crunchers, but probably just a few days a week. This includes a i7 920, 1090T and FX-6100.

I'll go take a look...depending on the price, I might be able to pick up two of them

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If you're interested in AMD FX you can pick up a Biostar A880GZ mobo, FX-6100, and 4GB of ram for about $200 at NewEgg. I have 2 of these running and they're doing pretty well (4k ppd or so @ stock clocks)

If you're interested in AMD FX you can pick up a Biostar A880GZ mobo, FX-6100, and 4GB of ram for about $200 at NewEgg. I have 2 of these running and they're doing pretty well (4k ppd or so @ stock clocks)

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4k PPD each I assume? Might it make more sense to shell out $30 more a FX-8120? Shouldn't that do ~33% higher PPD for ~15% more money?

Hyper212 will be for stock frequency certainly the best choice. If you want 4GHz+ frequency and more than 5k ppd, you need something more serious, because the heating is quite large.

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Fair enough. I would probably want to stop in the upper-3GHz range so I can have something reasonably quiet and not too loud (I'll be keeping these in my dorm). I had no idea you could get 5k+ PPD out of them...wow!

Fair enough. I would probably want to stop in the upper-3GHz range so I can have something reasonably quiet and not too loud (I'll be keeping these in my dorm). I had no idea you could get 5k+ PPD out of them...wow!

....so tempting...

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A wise decision. Quiet, low power, restful sleep.
I'm keeping my 8120 not in the dorm and can somehow get the 6200 ppd at 4.4 GHz frequency

... And the hyper212 is a great cooler for its price. But I don't think it'll handle a FX too well at high clocks. For stock or a slight bump in clocks it really does not have any competition though, great cooler for the price.

... And the hyper212 is a great cooler for its price. But I don't think it'll handle a FX too well at high clocks. For stock or a slight bump in clocks it really does not have any competition though, great cooler for the price.

Ahh, that makes more sense then. When did WCG start to phase in GPU crunching? What are the best cards for this, and what sort of PPD do they do?

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I do not know quite well when they appear. Received the beta only the second time. The only thing I can say that the Beta-tasks come to a cruncher with AMD HD6950 GPU, never to the weaker. I remember that Norton was several times happy owner of Beta.

I do not know quite well when they appear. Received the beta only the second time. The only thing I can say that the Beta-tasks come to a cruncher with AMD HD6950 GPU, never to the weaker. I remember that Norton was several times happy owner of Beta.

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Not this time though- I forgot to enable GPU computing when I finished up all of my hardware reconfiguring and